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Oregon Wine Industry Collection, 1937-2011
Overview of the Collection
- Title
- Oregon Wine Industry Collection
- Dates
- 1937-2011 (inclusive)19372011
1990-2010 (bulk)19902010 - Quantity
- 0.3 cubic feet, (2 boxes, including 1 oversize box)
- Collection Number
- MSS.Wine
- Summary
- The Oregon Wine Industry Collection documents the wine industry in Oregon and includes clippings, winery newsletters and guides, publications, and ephemera.
- Repository
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Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives Research Center
Special Collections and Archives Research Center
121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis OR
97331-4501
Telephone: 5417372075
Fax: 5417378674
scarc@oregonstate.edu - Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research.
- Languages
- English
Historical NoteReturn to Top
Wine has been produced in Oregon since the mid-19th century, but winemaking ceased in the early 20th century with Prohibition. The wine industry in Oregon remained dormat until the 1960s when several winemakers migrated north to Oregon from California and established vineyards and wineries in southern Oregon and the Willamette Valley. During the past 40-plus years, the wine industry in Oregon has grown to include 15 approved winegrowing regions with more than 300 wineries producing wines from 72 grape varieties.
The Oregon Wine Research Institute was established at Oregon State University in 2010 as a partnership among Oregon's robust wine industry, state government, and OSU's Colleges of Agricultultural Sciences and Businesss.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The Oregon Wine Industry Collection documents the wine industry and winemaking in Oregon and includes clippings, winery newsletters and guides, publications, and ephemera. Newsletters from Tyee Wine Cellars (Corvallis), Springhill Cellars Winery (Albany), Foris Vineyards Winery (Cave Junction), Bellfountain Cellars (Corvallis), Hinman Vineyards/Silvan Ridge (Eugene), and Serendipity Cellars Winery (Monmouth) are included.
Individual winery guides and brochures, guides for counties (Benton and Yamhill) and regions (Willamette Valley and Southern Oregon), as well as state-wide guides are part of the collection. Information about the public stock offering by the Willamette Valley Vineyards (Turner) is also included.
Publications include Technical Notes for Oregon Wine Growers and Wine Makers issued in July 1975 by Oregon State University Extension Specialist for Small Fruits, Ralph H. Garren, Jr., and Extension Food Technologist, Howard P. Milleville; A Report on Wine Tasting No. 4 (July 1975) prepared by H.Y. Yang of the Department of Food Science and Technology; and Vineyard Site Selection in Linn and Benton Counties (circa 1992) by the Department of Horticulture.
A 1937 letter from Philip M. Wagner to Mr. Warren answers questions about winemaking and grape selection.
Ephemeral items include a 1988 bottle label from the Silver Falls Winery; a 1997 map, The Wine Appellations of Oregon, published by the Oregon Wine Marketing Coalition; and a drawing of the Willamette Valley Vineyards.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Preferred Citation
Oregon Wine Industry Collection, Oregon State University Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Future Additions
Additions to the collection are expected.
Acquisition Information
These materials were previously part of the Memorabilia Collection and Publications Collection of the University Archives; they were separated from those collections to form this new collection in the Special Collections & Archives Research Center in 2012.
Related Materials
The wine industry and winemaking in Oregon are also documented in the Agricultural Experiment Station Records (RG 025) as well as the records of the Food Science and Technology (RG 176), Horticulture (RG 187), and Agricultural and Resource Economics (RG 128) Departments. Numerous Oregon State University theses and dissertations and Extension Service and Experiment Station publications on wines and grape culture are available online in ScholarsArchive@OSU.
The Oregon Historical Society's holdings include the following collections documenting the Oregon wine industry: Elaine Cohen and Richard Hopkins Papers and the Oregon Wine Archives Collection.
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Vineyards--Oregon--Guidebooks.
- Wine industry--Oregon.
- Wine and wine making--Oregon.
- Wineries--Oregon--Guidebooks.
Form or Genre Terms
- Maps.
Other Creators
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Corporate Names
- Oregon Wine Advisory Board. (creator)
Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth
Nielsen
2012
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
